Technology Associates Inc.(remembered)
The EternaLight assets of Technology Associates, Inc.
have been transfered to EternaLights, LLC. All orders
and services issues will be handled by them.

History:
In 1992,
Thomas Hoops and Derone Bryson founded Technology Associates.
In 1994, their partnership incorporated under the name
of Technology Associates, Inc. Between 1993 and 2000,
Technology Associates successfully operated a small
chain of computer stores in the Reno/Sparks area which sold
and serviced computers.
Technology Associates was also one of the founding investors
in Great Basin Internet Services (GBIS), Northern Nevada's Largest
Independent internet service provider. In 1998, TA divested itself
of GBIS. In 2000, TA divested itself of it's retail stores
to pursue manufacturing of the EternaLight flashlight
and other related and unrelated products developed by Thomas Hoops
and Derone Bryson. In 2007,
the organization formerly known as Technology
Associates, Inc., founded by Thomas Hoops and
Derone Bryson in 1992 ceased to exist.

This site, operated by MondoBeyondo, Inc. is still a
functioning sales platform for the EternaLight products
manufactured and sold by EternaLights, LLC. However,
the remainder of the site remains as it was in it's finality before
the closing of Technology Associates, Inc.

Today Mr. Bryson operates a technology consulting firm
known as Mondobeyondo, Inc. (www.mondobeyondo.com). Mr. Hoops
is privately employed in a manufacturing company as
it's CTO. After working together since 1990, through their various
projects and partnerships, Mr. Hoops and Mr. Bryson are still best friends
and continue to explore new opportunities together.

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I got this idea while designing a sci-fi spaceship. It's a gauss gun that shoots particles rather than anything solid.

The basic idea was to replace the magnets in an old-fashioned gauss gun (such as the ones built in physics class in highschool) with magnetized gas (particles). Initially, a wave of particles would be accelerated electrically into a vacuum tube where gas would be simultaneously injected in hundreds of positions. As the wave hits the gas the particles collide and accelerate towards the next gas inlet. Since particles are used instead of magnets, the integrity of the "magnets" would not be a limiting factor.
On the other hand, even heavy particles should be accelerated to HIGH speeds to have an impact.

My physics knowledge is very limited so, if this forum is active anymore, could this weapon actually work?

Logged here, hoping to find information about gauss guns that use coils, porbably gonna try and build one at our summer place ;)

p.s.
In case there are typos, it's because I'm far from a native speaker (finnish) :)

Our gauss gun plans acutally use a soda straw to shoot a BB. So, I might as well not say anymore or we would end up just giving the plans away for free! However, I'm not aware of this other method you describe with a spring.

I imagine this straw gauss gun is made one of two ways:
Linear coil
Linear pull-push phases

In a coil gun, there are stages of coils that are made into electromagnets, which pull the projectile in oscillations.(on long enough to pull, then off while the next coil is turned on).
Coil guns can be breech loaded or muzzle loaded, I suppose.

In a push-pull, which are muzzle loaded I assume, a series of electromagnets with intermediate non-magnetic items build up speed by smacking into one another till power is built up on the loaded projectile, which fires(normal magnets can be used, depending on design).

While filming in a electrical motor factory we came upon a secret project. It was an electrical motor which followed a rail. It was a replacment for an elevator cable system. The advantage was that it could not only go vertically, but also horizontally. Do any of you know more about this?

I can't imagine what part of rail gun technology would be used here - but that isn't to say there isn't something. However, the application of what you describe might be some kind of new improvement on a linear motor which is used commonly to position X-Y tables or for fine precise postioning.

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Unfortunately, I was out of state when this
finally came to a head and was decided. I
could spew reams about corruption (and I have -
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but the fact is that we ourselves are to blame
for letting things get this bad. We have
allowed decades of legislators to sell us
security and fixes for problems which we should
have taken responsibility to handle ourselves
as individuals instead of trying to get fix-all
laws, committees and agencies which apply to
everyone.

These laws and their infrastructure
are so thick, so compounding and confusing that
leagues of experts can not agree on their
meanings anymore. When that happens, your have
what I call "corruptable interpretation". In
other words, since no average citizen can
understand the totality of the laws, we appoint
experts to interpret those laws. Those experts
are corruptible either by direct lobby,
threatening influence or through misleading and
deceptive information. The governor was quite
clever, using Nevada's balanced budget law, he
got the legislature to approve the budget
before they thought about funding it. Then, he
threw that gap back on them. I noted,
according to the RGJ, that a majority of
expense in the budget was allocated to police
and fire. It's a shame that the public accepts
these expenses without question. There are so
many laws which need no enforcement. So many
laws in which we are better off without
enforcement. And, so many laws which were
designed to prevent events which are
statistically irrelevant. Were I on the
legislature, I would have proposed a
significant cut in police funding. To offset
that, I would propose an increase in citizen's
policing rights. And then give the police
departments more opportunity to use volunteer
citizen help. Many policing duties do not
require the intense training police officers
undergo. Cell phones and eyes for watching go
a long way. As for laws which they try to
enforce, for example, I don't feel that most
citizens need protection from prostitutes or
more so, the "johns" they service. The
"stings" they set up are a waste of taxpayer
money and destroy peoples lives who are
otherwise productive citizens.

I am quite sure there are many other such
opportunities for cuts in other agencies and
departments which do not affect schools or
educational services.

The puppet masters are so arrogant these days, they could care less whether or not their audience even likes the show.

I don't really know where this stuff stands anymore. The thing to remember is if you heard about it, it's probably old. If it's not old, then you heard about it because it probably doesn't work very well. If it works well and its new, don't count on hearing about it until its old - :) But, remember in all of these that they are not free energy machines. The amount of energy released in a .22 cartidge is probably on the order of a Kilojoule, but I would invite comment from a physics expert here. That's a pretty damn big electrical energy device (like a capacitor) compared to the size of a .22 cartridge. Energy storage technologies are the thing to really keep your eyes on because this gives us clues about what the big boys may be doing.

A friend of mine told me that the military had recently succeeded in making a practical gauss gun. The weapon is supposed to be capable of downing aircraft from the ground. He also told me that video of test fires of the weapon is available online but I don't know where. As for the mass driver, I don't know what happened to earlier efforts, but nasa is funding to conduct a preliminary study to see if a mag-lev driver to space is feasible. This is a somewhat recent development. Check out Scientific American's website for information on this. Search for "halbach array train". The article is from ~1-2 years ago.

I seen a site with pics of one in use. It was actually a rail and gauss guns.
there were several sizes. a small version about the size of a small ice chest that fired at a high rate, not sure of the velocity.
the rail gun was on the back of a flat bed truck and fired 1gm projectile at just over 9 miles/second 16,000 m/s.
stated it would fire a 1.6 kilogram/ 3.5 pound projectile at about 2800 m/s or 1.6 mile per second.
This would be an awsome application for a tank, could fire smaller non-explosive rounds further and at high enough velocity to tear the toughest tank apart. and with out the need to hull large amounts of explosive materials inside the cabin with the crew.